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Interview with Laura Pogson

Laura Pogson recalls how her parents had ‘theatre guests’ staying in their home in the early days of the Festival. Her brothers were ushers and allowed her to sneak into the tent for the opening night and she remembers sitting on the steps as Alec Guinness stepped forward to speak ‘Now is the winter of our discontent.’

In recalling the early days of the Festival, she remembers Tyrone Guthrie’s words of advice, hearing something memorable about Glenn Gould, and the original tent being literally torn to pieces…